Boot or shoe



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BOOT 0 SHOE.

Pat'ented July 21, 1885.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

TOBIAS P. MITCHELL, OF HAVERHILL, MASSACHUSETTS.

BOOT OR SHOE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 322,467, dated July 21,1885.

Application filed March 24, 1884.

T all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, TOBIAS P. MITCHELL, of Haverhill, in the county ofMiddleseX and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain boot in sideView as buttoned and closed, and

Fig. 2 shows the boot in side view as unbuttoned and opened, it beingready to be put on or taken off the foot.

In the drawings, A represents the vamp,

. and B and C, respectively, the front and hind quarters of a boot orshoe constructed and arranged in any of the usual ways of making bootsor shoes. The boot is open at one side from the top a to the vamp A atb, and at such opening D the front quarter is of sufficient width to lapover said opening, and by its button-holes d be fastened to the buttonsf on the hind quarter 0, and when so buttoned close up the opening D,asusual.

At the lowerpart of the opening D,bet ween the front and hind quarters BO, is an inter-' mediate quarter or piece, E, attached to the vampinside of the boot and extending beyond each edge 9 of the front andhind quarters, provided with a button or stud h,to which the (No model.)

way, as is apt to be the case where such is not used, and the frontquarter is buttoned to the hind quarter the whole length. This inter- 5omediate quarter or piece can extend up higher and have more than onebutton or stud on it to be buttoned to the quarter, but, as shown, issufficient for all practical purposes, and the opening can be at eitherside or the front of the boot.

Having thus described my invention, what I. claim, and desire to secureby Letters Patent, 1s

As an improved article of manufacture, a side-fastened boot or shoehaving front and hind quarters, B and 0, one of which is provided withbuttons orvstuds, and an intern mediate quarter or piece, E, secured tothe vamp between the two quarters at their j unction with the vamp, andadapted to be buttoned to the front quarter, substantially as and forthe purpose specified.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of twosubscribing witnesses.

T. P. MITCHELL.

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EDWIN W. BROWN, WM. S. BELLows.

